A bear market is impossible with ethereum. It's generating too much news. This dao drama is only likely to generate a lot of interest in eth
That's a pretty flimsy case for never having a bear market. Lots of things generate news. News is rather worthless, buyers are what matter. Bitcoin generates far more news, but that didn't keep it from crumbling to from $200 from $1200. Only the hype about the halving has managed to bring it back to 40% of it's high point.
Yah, I think only news is not enough to drive the price higher. We need good development of the platform and many usages.
the biggest driving force that can drive the price high is hype and i believe that ethereum has exhuasted that resource enough that there is nothing left in it to push theprice up. although you never know with eth since it is being controlled by the dev team that have the largest amount.